Nut-lock



(No Model.)

H. R. EBY.

NUT LOOK.

No. 589,596. Patented Sept. '7, 1897.

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IIIRAM R. EBY, OF MASTERSONVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

NUT-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,596, dated September '7, 1897.

Application filed August 2 1, 1896;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIBAM R. EBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mastersonville, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented'certain new and useful Improvements in Nut-Locks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to devices for lockin g threaded nuts in their position upon bolts, and more particularly to that class of nutlocks utilized in the construction of railroads.

In describing my invention in detail I will make use of the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the invention in place upon the meeting ends of railway-rails. Fig. 2 shows the segregated parts of my nut-lock.

In each of the figures the same numeral indicates the same part.

1 1 are the adjacent ends of railway-rails, secured to each other in the well-known way by the fish-plate 2 and the bolts Near one end of the fish-plate is a socketplate 4, comprising the rectangular portion 5, provided with. a bolt-hole 6, and the other end bent outwardly at a right angle forming a lug *7, formed with a socket 8.

To the other end of the fish-plate 2 is socured in a similar way the clamp-plate 9, comprising a strap 10 with the hole 11 and the lug 12 with the horizontal slot13, having the enlarged portion It.

A fork 15 is formed of steel wire or similar material of resilient nature, with a pintle 16, and with the outwardly-opening bends or kinks 17 disposed near the ends 18 of the said fork. Between the pintle 16 and the ends 18 of the fork 15 the arms thereof have bends 19, whereby they engage alternate nuts fierial No. 603,476. (No model.)

upon opposite sides, crossing each other, as

The operation of my device is simple and effective. The fish-plates are set and the plates 4 and 9 are secured. The nuts are run home. The pintle 16 of the fork 15 is now thrust into its socket 8. The ends 18 are pinched so as to pass through the slot 13, the bends 17 engaging the enlarged part 14. It will be found that the fork 15 now embraces all of the nuts 21 of the bolts 3 and prevents their turning.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is- In a nut-lock, the combination with the rails, the fish-plate, the bolts and nuts, the

socket-plate at one end of the fish-plate havzontally forming two arms which alternately cross each other between the nuts soas to engage with the upper and lower sides thereof and the ends bent or kinked and passed through the slot in the clamp plate and seated in the recess therein, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature I in presence of two witnesses.

HIRAM R. EBY. Witnesses GEORGE G. GREINER, WnsLnY S. SHENK. 

